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A Study of Influential Statistics Associated with Success in the National Football League
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This dissertation considers the most important aspects of success in the National Football League (NFL). Success is defined, for this paper, as winning individual games in the short term, and making the playoffs over the ...
Comparing Several Modeling Methods on NCAA March Madness.
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This year (2015), according to the AGA’s (American Gaming Association) research, nearly about 40 million people filled out about 70 million March Madness brackets (Moyer, 2015). Their objective is to correctly predict the ...
Boundary Estimation
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The existing statistical methods do not provide a satisfactory solution to determining the
spatial pattern in spatially referenced data, which is often required by research in many areas
including geology, agriculture, ...
Where do the Differences Lie?: An Analysis of Distance Road Running Populations
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Recently, much research has been focused on the gap in performance between male and female runners. Our research is focused on examining the gap between these two running populations in depth to determine where the specific ...
A Comparison of False Discovery Rate Method and Dunnett's Test for a Large Number of Treatments
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
It has become quite common nowadays to perform multiple tests simultaneously in order to detect differences of a certain trait among groups. This often leads to an inflated probability of at least one Type I Error, a ...